Your internet traffic is already encrypted in transit, that what the “s” in https means.

A VPN does exactly two things: Hides your traffic from your ISP (but shows it to the VPN provider instead) and masks your IP and physical location.

Everything else is advertising and marketing gimmicks

Those aren’t visa workers genius, those are outsourced foreign workers

They teach literal children to not judge a book by it’s cover, but I guess you must’ve been out sick that day in kindergarden…

Visa workers aren’t replacing American workers, they supplements them. Workers on visas are a pain in the ass. No company is ever gonna hire a non permanent resident if there’s an equally qualified native citizen available for the position.

Countless studies have shown that immigrant labour is a boon to the economy, and immigrants statistically create demand for more jobs than they take.

Foreign workers are also a massive boon to tax income. Some other country spent 18 years paying for their income less childhood and education, and then they leave that country, and start paying taxes in America.

Ah yes. “Come work for us, also you never get to on holiday or visit your family ever again” is sure to be a big draw for foreign workers.

Trump sure knows what’s good for the economy…

I’m not a fan of gen AI either, but this feels like taking it a bit far. Getting pissed over them using gen AI for placeholder art, that was then replaced by human art in the release feels utterly ridiculous.

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Click bait is anything that is designed to bait people into clicking a link. Virtually every headline and content title on the internet is click bait to some level.

Malicious click bait is when headlines either outright lie, or imply things that aren’t accurate to the content.

The phrasing of this title implies that the creation of a privacy tool is what the creator got arrested for, which is in fact inaccurate to the content, as the reason wasn’t creating the tool, the reason was using the tool for money laundering.

So imo it’s 100% fair to call this title malicious clickbait

The title is click bait because it falsely implies that the privacy part of the tool is why the creator is being penalised, rather than the money laundering part.

It’s a bit like writing a headline about a drunk driver killing a family of four and making the headline “He bought a red car. Now he’s going to jail”

It happened once, to one aircraft, and it’s solvable with a software update.

You’re more likely to be struck by lightning the next time you leave your house than to run into this problem on a flight, and that was before the software update.

A bit IS represented by one or zero. A bit can take the state of charged or not charged. That’s what a bit physically is. In low level code, those states are represented by binary numbers.

Or do you think there’s a actual physical numbers 0 and 1 floating around in your RAM ?

Read that sentence again. They didn’t say bits represent 0s and 1s, they said bits are represented BY 0s and 1s, which is entirely correct.

Physically speaking, in a modern silicon based PC, bits are the presence or absence of electrons in an electron well. That presence or absence is often represented by binary numbers, because it makes the math easy, though it can also be represented in other ways, such as “HI” and “LO”. Or in a Boolean mathematics the bits would represent the values “True” and “False”.

The statement from the article is entirely correct.

This isn’t a scientific journal or news paper. It’s a main stream article by the BBC, intended to be consumed, and understood, by people who have zero knowledge of how computers, bits or binary numbers work, so I really don’t see the issue here.

It’s not going to be become a major problem. We have radiation hardened computing hardware, and ways to deal with single event effects, we’ve in fact got a lot of practice doing these things, because guess what: Satellites also need working computing hardware, and they’re exposed to orders of magnitude more radiation than aircraft.

Manufacturers will just have to start taking it into consideration more in the future, and ensure that the flight computers have redundant ECC memory.

To address your two points, where did people get the idea that the word porn implies artistic merit or consent?

I didn’t say merit (or consent, though I assume that one’s a typo), I said artistic intent. Which every creative work by definition has. And I don’t consider CSAM to be a creative work. It’s just abuse, created opportunisticly with no real artistic or creative consideration.

Also, there is nothing ethically wrong with porn in a vacuum, so categorising this material as a sub-category of something that isn’t inherently ethically wrong in my opinion makes it a bad term. The term CSAM clearly and strictly delineates it from consensual porn.

CP can stand for a lot of things but it’s common parlance now. CSAM just causes confusion.

Ah yes. The Acronym with MORE common definitions somehow causes less confusion. That makes perfect sense. Of course. That explains why so many people in this thread were confused by it. Oh no wait. They weren’t.

Also really? Now you’re stooping to the old “why so mad bro?”. You’re the one having a meltdown, I’m wasting time at work by sharing an opinion.

You’re the one who got upset enough about me using a common abbreviation, that no one in the thread was remotely confused by, to kick off this entire shit. You decided you needed to pedantically comment on this. I’m simply defending myself from your pedantic grammar nazi shit.

I’m not comparing you to Ben Shapiro, I’m comparing your grammar nazi pedantism to a single specific instance of his grammar nazi pedantism.

I also gave several explicit reasons why using CP over CSAM is idiotic, not just “my friends say so”

So that’s 2 for 2 for wildly and dishonestly misrepresenting my points.

But hey, if you want to be like that sure.

You’re right, everyone else is wrong, you do you and keep using CP instead of CSAM, and keep getting irrationally upset and angry at people who think CSAM is a better term. Happy now ?

Big “Ben Shapiro ranting about renewable energies because of the first law of thermodynamics” energy right here.

And your point is literally the opposite. Lolita could be argued to be child porn, as it’s pornographic material showing (fictional/animated) children. It is objectively NOT CSAM, because it does not contain CSA, because you can’t sexually abuse a fictional animated character.

CP is also a common acronym that can mean many other things.

Porn also implies it’s a work of artistic intent, which is just wrong for CSAM.

The majority of people can be wrong.

No they can’t, not with regards to linguistics. Linguistics is a descriptive science, not a prescriptive one. Words and language, by definition, and convention of every serious linguist in the world, mean what the majority of people think them to mean. That’s how language works.

Also, the data set wasn’t hosted, created, or explicitly used by Google in any way.

It was a common data set used in various academic papers on training nudity detectors.

Did you seriously just read the headline, guess what happened, and are now arguing based on that guess that I, who actually read the article, am wrong about it’s content ? Because that’s sure what it feels like reading your comments…

So you didn’t read my comment then did you ?

He got banned because Google’s automated monitoring system, entirely correctly, detected that the content he unzipped contained CSAM. It wasn’t even a manual decision to ban him.

His ban had literally nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that the CSAM was part of an AI training data set.

Material can be anything. It can be images, videos theoretically even audio recordings.

Images is a relevant and sensible distinction. And judging by the downvotes you’re collecting, the majority of people disagree with you.